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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Second Chance, Diane Shaw's much anticipated follow-up to the 2015 Best Selling Debut Soul Album

Her 2015 debut album ‘Love, Life & Strings’ was labelled
‘The Best Soul Album of the 21st Century’ by Tower Records in Tokyo. It spent 2
weeks at the top of the UK Soul Charts gaining critical industry acclaim and
worldwide airplay after being championed on BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music by DJ’s
including Craig Charles and Tony Blackburn. Following on the heels of that
success,

Diane Shaw now finally brings her much anticipated follow up set
‘Second Chance’ which expands on the theme incorporating that winning formula
of old school arrangements and real musicians rarely heard in this day and age.
Real songs are at the core of Diane’s concept for her own music style, and this
album is comprised of 12 brand new ‘Future Classic’ Soul Songs.

‘Second Chance’ has been in the working for over 18 months
now, and tracks have been handpicked from a variety of sources, original
writers as well as industry veterans. We have been very fortunate to get our
hands on some rare gems unreleased by songwriting greats. She also has a new
song written by the legend Michael McDonald which has never been released, and
has been rearranged it into a great mid-tempo track. An unreleased Motown track
written by Jimmy Webb in 1963 was also found and rearranged and should hit the
spot for the dancefloors of the Northern Soul scene.

Slightly different from her first album, Diane has
introduced a few classic modern soul-style dance numbers in the vein of classic
Philly Soul and similar, and she once again took on the immense challenge of
ditching the computers for the recording with a full live band in the hope of
recreating that real authentic feel once again.